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| | Dear America: A Coal Miner's Bride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In A Coal Miner's Bride, she brings young readers to the 1890's coal mining towns, boarding houses, and into the dangerous mines themselves. |
 | | For instance, although many books tell what it was like to be a wealthy and powerful coal operator or the coal miner, few books tell what it was like to be a child who worked in the mines. |
 | | This wasn't unusual in the coal region: by the time a girl was thirteen, she knew all she needed to know to take care of a house, a husband, and a family. |
| www.scholastic.com /dearamerica/parentteacher/guides/dearamerica/coalminer.htm (2216 words) |
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